For almost a year, Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in an intense war of attrition that the Israeli Government has decided to end by launching massive bombings and announcing the possibility of a new ground invasion of Lebanon.
In this war of attrition and action-reaction, both managed to avoid large-scale conflict. The Shiite group Hezbollah began shooting on October 8 in response to attacks on Gaza (which in the first day had left hundreds of Palestinians dead) and Israel used the argument of “self-defense.” Analysis of the data conducted by elDiario.es confirms that, until the recent escalation of the conflict, Israeli attacks in Lebanon multiplied attacks carried out by militias by a factor of five. Thus, 83% of cross-border incidents were carried out by Israel.